Islam In The United States
ISLAM is the third largest religion in the
United StatesUnited States after
Christianity and Judaism. According to a 2010 study, it is followed
by 0.9% of the population, compared with 70.6% who follow
Christianity, 22.8% unaffiliated, 1.9% Judaism, 0.7% Buddhism, and
0.7% Hinduism. According to a newer estimate done in 2016, there
were 3.3 million
MuslimsMuslims living in the United States, about 1% of the
total U.S. population. American
MuslimsMuslims come from various backgrounds and, according to a
2009 Gallup poll, are one of the most racially diverse religious
groups in the United States. Native-born American
MuslimsMuslims are mainly
African Americans who make up about a quarter of the total Muslim
population. Many of these have converted to
IslamIslam during the last
seventy years
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African Americans
AFRICAN AMERICANS (also referred to as BLACK AMERICANS or
AFRO-AMERICANS ) are an ethnic group of
AmericansAmericans with total or
partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa. The
term may also be used to include only those individuals who are
descended from enslaved Africans . As a compound adjective the term
is usually hyphenated as African-American. Black and African
AmericansAmericans constitute the third largest racial and
ethnic group in the United States (after White
AmericansAmericans and Hispanic
and Latino
AmericansAmericans ). Most African
AmericansAmericans are descendants of
enslaved peoples within the boundaries of the present United States.
On average, African
AmericansAmericans are of West /Central African and
European descent, and some also have Native American ancestry
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Asian Americans
ASIAN AMERICANS are
AmericansAmericans of Asian descent. The term refers to a
panethnic group that includes diverse populations who have ancestral
origins in
East AsiaEast Asia ,
Southeast AsiaSoutheast Asia , or
South AsiaSouth Asia , as defined by
the U.S. Census Bureau . This includes people who indicate their
race(s) on the census as "Asian" or reported entries such as "Asian
Indian , Chinese , Filipino , Korean , Japanese , Vietnamese , and
Other Asian." Asian
AmericansAmericans with no other ancestry comprise 4.8% of
the U.S. population, while people who are Asian alone or combined with
at least one other race make up 5.6%. Although migrants from Asia have been in parts of the contemporary
United States since the 17th century, large-scale immigration did not
begin until the mid-18th century
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Multiracial Americans
MULTIRACIAL AMERICANS are
AmericansAmericans who have mixed ancestry of "two
or more races" . The term may also include
AmericansAmericans of mixed-race
ancestry who self-identify with just one group culturally and socially
(cf. the one-drop rule ). In the 2010 US census , approximately 9
million individuals, or 2.9% of the population, self-identified as
multiracial. There is evidence that an accounting by genetic
ancestry would produce a higher number, but people live according to
social and cultural identities, not DNA. Historical reasons, including
slavery creating a racial caste and the European-American suppression
of Native Americans, often led people to identify or be classified by
only one ethnicity, generally that of the culture in which they were
raised. Prior to the mid-20th century, many people hid their
multiracial heritage because of racial discrimination against
minorities
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